In a letter to the Knox County School District in Tennessee, the Alliance Defense Fund declared the principal of Karns Elementary School is on "shaky constitutional ground."

According to ADF, 10-year-old student Luke Whitson
used his regularly scheduled recess time to read the Bible with a few
friends on his school's playground. After receiving a complaint from a
parent, the principal reportedly ordered the students to stop their
activity, put their Bibles away and cease from bringing them to school.

"There are no 'age discrimination' allowances in the First
Amendment of the Constitution," said ADF Senior Counsel Joseph
Infranco. "The law protects these students the same as it protects all
students."

Infranco said children "have rights of speech and
association during their non-instructional time, and the school may not
curtail those rights because of their age."

According to the Knox News Sentinel: silviom[at]mailinator[dot]com password: helsinki) Karns Elementary School Principal Cathy Summadenies that there is a ban on bringing Bibles to school, saying that she has one in her office. But when can kids read their Bibles?